Re: Re: AMA indoor beginners class

From: Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo_at_helsinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:40:35 +0300 (EEST)

>> don't put any restrictions on it (which is quite hard to do) - then the
>> "old" guys start playing with it and off it goes AGAIN ! Not to be a wet
>> blanket but unless you limit the event the "old" guys will always
>> dominate,

> You mean like these former beginner events:
>
> EZB
> Pennyplane
> Limited Pennyplane
> Intermediate Stick
> F1M
> NoCal
> A-6

We had a discussion here in Finland on how to make F1M a beginners class
again. One idea was to introduce 1-design addendum to to class, meaning
that if you fly with a model build per Moustique drawings (short stick
fuz, solid balsa prop with no VP), you will still participate in the
"open" F1M, but your score would be also picked to the "beginners" list,
presented separately. This way you would be "in" the main class all the
time, and make a transition into only the open when you would feel
confident to start modifying your model beyond the original Moustique. We
have not tried that yet, though.


-Tapio-
Received on Thu Jun 15 2006 - 21:41:38 CEST